The country singer Charlie Louvin has died today at age 83 from cancer , reports the New York Times . Together with his 1965 brother died in a car accident Ira Louvin Charlie was in the fifties and sixties, to the greatest interpreters of religious music - always with a naive fervor appears to us today just as strange as interesting. The 1963 resolution Louvin Brothers were related to the country and bluegrass revival in the last decade re-discovered. As models have paid homage to them including Elvis Costello, Dolly Parton, The Byrds, Jack White of the White Stripes, Gram Parsons, Emmylou Harris and Beck.
The cover of "Satan Is Real"
The music of the Louvin Brothers is also very attractive and confusing because it has a theatrical element, that of American popular culture (and many songs of the Louvin Brothers were folk songs or is it now) rather strange. Their religious fervor seems excessive, always a bit exaggerated. If they sound to the confession of a murderer - as in its classical interpretation of the song "Knoxville Girl" - then it is content-person narrator is not the mere confession of murdering a girl, but he indulges long and wide in the gory details . Similarly, the eccentric cover of their famous record "Satan Is Real" of 1958, the two in front of a nearly four-meter-high plywood cartoon devil shows the stands in the midst of a burning pile of cut up with petrol cast car tires. This ubiquitous "too much" in the art of the Louvin Brothers, it has also made icons of a special kind of gay culture originally reception for Susan Sontag in 1964 the term "camp" has popularized. The Louvin Brothers are at least as camp as Liberace, or as Charles de Gaulle - two figures, as explained in the Susan Sontag has what camp is.
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